Critical University Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID2295203
AuthorsVineeta Singh (0000-0001-6787-8203, Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA), Neha Vora (0009-0000-7615-2076, American University of Sharjah, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume52
Issue1
Pages39-54
Publication date2023-10-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-052721-040011
OpenAlexW4378976427
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited75

In this article, we explore critical university studies (CUS), an interdisciplinary body of scholarship that interrogates structures of higher education and their entanglements with national and global institutions and political movements. Favoring an expansive definition of CUS, we draw from scholars who trace the origins of the American university to the slave trade, racial science, and Native American ethnic cleansing projects, as well as scholars who bring abolitionist and decolonial stances to highlight how the university continues to perpetuate state interests, carceral and settler logics, empire, and antiblackness. We then bring the lens of CUS to bear on critical work by anthropologists on higher education and on the discipline more broadly. We explore the challenges of advocating for antiracist and anti-imperial anthropology without attending to the structures of Western/white superiority that have enabled its institutionalization. We conclude by considering interventions by the emerging field of abolitionist anthropology

Biopower · Critical theory · Empire · Expansive · Institutionalisation · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · White (mutation · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Law

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